Which Rod or Wire are you using on construction equipment

[TerryL]

Pipe Thawing

Hey Norm,

Friend of mine recently had frozen pipe in a joist cavity. (Poorly designed kitchen with water pipes on outside floor/ceiling.

And another friend (contractor) helped out by pushing room temperature air with a shop vac into the insulated...

[TerryL]

Been doing a lot of reading on the Forum and wherever I could find any information and I came across an interview with a metallurgical engineer.
Thomas J. Black, manager of hardfacing and high-alloy products for The Lincoln Electric Company in Cleveland, OH

The article went on...

[TerryL]

Heating up your shop or supplementing the heat in your house during the day

Hear is a method of helping heat your home or shop and you can tell your wife that you have to buy the supplies and drink the contents (beer) in order to heat the house up and save money.

Cansolair...

[TerryL]

Unfortunately Miller did not have a Chapter 0 or a TOC when I was downloading the 12 chapter Tig Handbook. I do remember they had a listing of the Chapters but not a downloadable copy.

Is there anywhere that someone knows that a copy of the CigWeld book in PDF is available for download??...

[TerryL]

NEMA twist lock plugs

The L6-20 will not work with the L6-30R. You will not be able to make them work together without a cheater cord. Which is still not recommended since their is an extra 10 amps of potential disaster to the electronics you are plugging into using the L6-30R. You...

[TerryL]

That really sucks!!
Farmers are working their backsides off to eek out a living and feed us.
Next time a farmer catches one of these low lifes maybe that low life should be buried for a night or two like a post in a five foot deep post hole. In the next day or two the post should be dug...

[TerryL]

Cruizer - do you step load the welder or generator or both??



Cruizer - do you step load the welder or generator or both??...

[TerryL]

Build a Big swatter for the next unwanted visitor

"monte55

What if I build a second cage around the first cage to protect it."


build a fly swatter over the cage with a motion sensor for night time use

[TerryL]

try razor wire to slow them down

if it is a flat roof put razor wire around the inside perimeter, have it insulated off the roof and connect it to an electric fence transformer. May not stop the determined thieves but definitely will slow them down.

[TerryL]

table top options

You could try a slate top inlaid in the table. It would hold up to just about anything and is not going to need much maintenance over its lifetime.

[TerryL]

some reading on CE

Check on the CE mark on Wikipedia with the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_mark

[TerryL]

Breaking into waterheater



Do you have the breakin on video...

[TerryL]

preheater to your water tank

Some people make a solar water heater as a pre-water heater to save themselves some cash in heating water. That saved money could be used to buy more welding toys or wobbly pops.

[TerryL]

wind tower sections at joints can be much thicker than 3"

The tower sections that get bolted together on the tube sections are very thick, depending on size of the tower and weight of nacelle the bolted sections can become very thick, much more than 3".

Some...

[TerryL]

No Food No Snake

Ya gotta get rid of the food they eat. They will not stay where there is no food.